Singapore Seeks Telecom Firms
To Start Bidding 3 Years Early

SINGAPORE -- The monopoly Singapore Telecommunications holds in basic services won't end for more than three years, but the jockeying to horn in on its territory has already begun.

Unveiling the first details on the coming deregulation since it moved up the breakup of Singapore Telecom's monopoly on basic domestic and international services to 2000 from 2007, the government said Monday it plans to award at least two licenses and it...